Thomas Dickey skrev:
> On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Jan Danielsson wrote:
> 
>> Rhialto wrote:
>>>> seems to be printing OOPSx and PSx all over the left part of the 
>>>> screen.
>>>
>>> That usually indicates a problem where the program tries to send some
>>> terminal command string with the curses library but the string is not
>>> known. Maybe you can try another terminal type setting. (vt100 instead
>>> of xterm, etc).
>>
>>   Ok, here's a dumb question: What does vt100, xterm, etc mean?
> 
> It should mean that the terminal responds to the escape sequences listed
> in the termcap/terminfo for the given name vt100, etc., as the terminal
> type is documented (for vt100 that's a hardware specification, for xterm,
> that's the program I maintain).

And it don't even need to be escape sequences. It all depends on the 
terminal...

> screen reads the termcap/terminfo, has additional config to add or 
> override termcap/terminfo features.  It's possible to define an entry in 
> the terminal database (such as screen.vt100) to modify its behavior, 
> though most people don't use that (I do, finding that its assumptions 
> don't work well ;-)

Screen is actually emulating a terminal itself, and uses termcap in 
turn, to display whatever effects it got requested by the system on to 
the terminal you use to connect to screen. So it's doing translations 
for you from one terminal type (screen's own) to your (whatever you have).

	Johnny